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The Fabulous 70s: The National Chess League
Before the current-day US Chess League, we had the National Chess League played with telephones! (pre-Web). Runners would relay the moves with lingo like “Baker echo 7″ (Be7). Often tim… more →
IM Mark Ginsburg Presents A Personal Chess History
Santa, are you listening???
henryconley wrote 8 hours ago: When I was young, we had a tradition of waiting to hear Santa’s penny-whistle, then once we he … more →
The Magic of a Christmas Tree...
henryconley wrote 1 day ago: This memory isn’t about the ‘Talking Christmas Tree’ and it isn’t a single m … more →
Favorite Christmas Smell...
henryconley wrote 1 week ago: Yup, I said favorite Christmas smell. Now first off, let’s rule out the smell of a Christmas t … more →
Christmas must be coming...
henryconley wrote 1 week ago: When I was a kid, there was one things that always meant Christmas was coming. No, it wasn’t … more →
Bigfoot is real dammit
henryconley wrote 1 week ago: Bigfoot is real dammit… Well, at least I’d like to think so. If there’s a news art … more →
The Talking Christmas Tree!!!
henryconley wrote 1 week ago: I remember first hearing talk of a ‘talking Christmas tree’ at school. Some kids were t … more →
The Heroes Among Us - And the Meaning of Courage - On the Anniversary of Pearl Harbor
hankwhitt wrote 2 weeks ago: The upcoming anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 reminded me of an essay I … more →
Growing up without fear of the world around us...
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henryconley wrote 2 weeks ago: Growing up in my neighborhood in the 1960s and 70s meant you didn’t feel you needed to fear ev … more →
Epic failure as a rock star and yet another lesson learned the hard way...
henryconley wrote 3 weeks ago: I knew I wanted to be a rock star by the time I was in perhaps, fifth grade. It looked like fun and … more →
"my mother explained the '60s & '70s to me by giving me her worn copies of Joan Didion’s essays"
peter wrote 4 weeks ago: It was 13 degrees outside. The winter light was piercing on the western side of Park Avenue. I had o … more →
"holed up in the library with a bottle of wine and read books"—james ellroy's road to writing
peter wrote 1 month ago: Portrait of the artist as a young dipshit. INTERVIEWER Is that when you started writing—after … more →
well, you asked
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Kate wrote 1 month ago: By request, another treat from The Archers pattern book. Here is the fragrant Caroline Bone / Pember … more →
The Muppets - Three Decades Ago...
hankwhitt wrote 1 month ago: Given the current celebration of Sesame Street’s fortieth anniversary, I reached into my files … more →
How evangelicals have rediscovered the treasures of early Christianity, and what to do next
Chris Armstrong wrote 1 month ago: Further to my previous post on the new center for early church studies at Wheaton: In Spring, 2007, … more →
The White House Press Corps - A Nixon Photo Op in 1971
hankwhitt wrote 1 month ago: I traveled during eight months of 1971 with the White House press corps for a possible book about re … more →
The Fabulous 70s: The National Chess League
nezhmet wrote 2 months ago: Before the current-day US Chess League, we had the National Chess League played with telephones! (p … more →
R.I.P. Farrah And Michael (We Loved Your Hair, Among Other Things)
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ybonesy wrote 6 months ago: Oodles of words have been spilled about the deaths this past Thursday of both Farrah Fawcett, at age … more →
Ambulance Ship
Kate wrote 8 months ago: Ballantine, 1979 If something about this image seems familiar, but you can’t quite put your fi … more →
On Wheels
Kate wrote 8 months ago: Warner Paperback Library, 1973 Holy shit! Take deep breaths and try not to panic: you are not trippi … more →
